Archive for November, 2007

EFF study confirms Comcast’s BitTorrent interference

The EFF has released a study that contains evidence of Comcast’s P2P blocking activities. The EFF also provides instructions that explain how users can test to see if their own ISP is interfering with traffic.

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Virtual Console Makes Nintendo $33 Million To Date

7.8 million downloads.

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NTT and Nintendo team up to push Wii’s online features in Japan

People who subscribe to the fiber-optic service in Japan get a discounted start-up package. With the way the Wii is selling worldwide, Nintendo should do this in other regions, as well.

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MTV Decides: All South Park Episodes Free Online

MTV Networks plans to make every clip from every episode of hit animated comedy “South Park” available for free online next year as part of a strategy to reach consumers everywhere.

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Apple developing mini-disc adapter for slot-loading drives

Apple iPod chief Tony Fadell has develop a hardware solution that would allow his company to ship software on mini-discs which could then used in slot-loading optical drives built for standard 12 cm CDs and DVDs, a new filing has revealed.

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The Future of the Internet — and How to Stop It

Call his theme the AOL-ization of technology. Instead of personal computers being able to run any program from any source without approval from a third party, which many of us became used to in the 1980s and 1990s, Zittrain fears we’re entering a world where centralized approval becomes necessary.

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Google Thinks Spammers Might Be Giving Up

Brad Taylor, Google’s chief spam “watchdog,” suspects that spammers may actually be giving up as filters becomes more sophisticated and fewer of their messages get through.

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Google removes thousands of malware sites

Google has cleansed more than 40,000 of malware hosting sites from their index, that seemed to be part of an organized SEO attack. OK - you might be thinking, spam search results show up everyday - why is this a big deal? It’s a big deal because the techniques used for these attacks was more clever and thought out than the typical SEO-poisoning.

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Federal judge rejects government request for Amazon customer records

Recently-unsealed records reveal that federal prosecutors tried and failed to obtain information about 24,000 people who purchased used books via Amazon from a Madison man who was indicted in October on tax charges.

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8 Reasons Why the PSP Might Overtake the DS

Dual emotions of surprise and confusion hit our faces when we heard that Sony’s redesigned PSP-2000 had shipped 1 million units in Japan in just about two months. Wasn’t the DS the portable gaming machine everyone preferred, especially in Japan?

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Rumor: Gamespot Editor Fired Over Negative Kane & Lynch Review

“A visit to Gamespot shows that the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game has taken over the site very prominently, with backgrounds and multiple banner ads all featuring Kane & Lynch.”

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NBC Uni time-shifts with TiVo data

By Paul Bond LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - For the next several years, NBC Universal will rely on TiVo to tell it how television viewers are using their digital video recorders and, presumably, to introduce interactive commercials to the…

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